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By the close of the eleventh century, Jerusalem had been in Muslim 
hands for over four hundred years.  In 1095 Pope Urban II launched 
an unprecedented military campaign to seize it back  a Crusade 
to purge the Holy Land of the infidel.  Over sixty thousand 
Christian warriors would journey three thousand miles and for 
almost three years to reclaim the Holy City in the name of God.
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But their adversaries, the Turkish warlords of the Middle East, 
would resist them every step of the way.  In a series of epic 
battles and bloody massacres, tens of thousands would die as the 
crusaders inched ever closer towards Jerusalem. The first crusade 
finally endeded in 1099 - with many more to come!
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The shadow of war between Christians and Muslims hang over us today, 
but it is a war that began nearly a thousand years ago. This clash 
of civilisations, were what characterised the Middle Ages (Medium vum).
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